The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing is an academic center affiliated with the Division of Toxicological Sciences in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Faculty & Steering committee
Melvin E. Andersen, PhD, CIH, DABT, FATS
The Hamner Institutes for Health Science
Stanley Barone, Jr., PhD
US Environmental Protection Agency
Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Kim Boekelheide, MD, PhD
Brown University
Joseph P. Bressler, PhD*
Johns Hopkins University
James S. Bus, PhD
Dow Chemical Company
Sandra Coecke, PhD*
European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM)
Lucio G. Costa, PhD, ATS
University of Washington
Kevin M, Crofton, PhD*
US Environmental Protection Agency
Ellen Fritsche, PhD*
University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Alan M. Goldberg, PhD*
Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD
European Centre for the Validation of
Alternative Methods (ECVAM)
Charles Hastings, PhD
BASF
Robert J. Kavlock, PhD
US Environmental Protection Agency
Holger Knaut, PhD*
European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM)
Sue A. Leary*
Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (ARDF)
Pamela J. Lein, PhD*
Oregon Health & Science University
Tina E. Levine, PhD*
US Environmental Protection Agency
Philip G. Lewis, MD, MPH*
Rohm and Haas Company
Abby A. Li, PhD*
Exponent Health Sciences
Paul A. Locke, JD, DrPH*
Johns Hopkins University
Sue Marty, PhD*
Dow Chemical Company
William R. Mundy, PhD*
US Environmental Protection Agency
David E. Owen, PhD*
Shell Chemicals Ltd.
Stephanie Padilla, PhD
US Environmental Protection Agency
Anna Price, PhD*
European Centre for the Validation of
Alternative Methods (ECVAM)
David E. Ray, PhD*
University of Nottingham, UK
Andréa Seiler, PhD*
ZEBET
Ellen K. Silbergeld, PhD*
Johns Hopkins University
Martin L. Stephens, PhD*
Humane Society of the United States
Robert L. Tanguay, PhD*
Oregon State University
Gihan I. Tennekoon, MD*
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Catherine Willett, PhD
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Marc Willuhn, PhD*
European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic)
*Steering Committee
We wish to thank the following for their Support
American Chemistry Council
Cefic LRI (European Chemical Industry Council)
CropLife America
Dow Chemical Company
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods
ExxonMobil
Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
Rohm and Haas Company
Society of Toxicology (SOT)
Syngenta
If you would like to discuss sponsoring DNT 2, please contact Betsy Nessen Merrill.
Creating a Humane and Efficient Approach to Developmental Neurotoxicity Testing
November 12-14, 2008
Reston, Virginia, USA
Call for Abstracts: Poster Session: Deadline extended to Sept. 30, 2008
Call for Abstracts: Poster Session
You are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation at the TestSmart DNT open meeting November 12-14, 2008 in Reston, Virginia. Posters should focus on in vitro or non-mammalian alternatives.
Guidelines: (1)
Abstracts are to be submitted electronically via email to rbrady@jhsph.edu. Microsoft Word is preferred format, but any Rich Text Formatted document is acceptable. The abstract should not be more than one page (10-pt. type). This includes the title, body, author name(s), institution(s), and spaces.
The abstract may not contain tables, figures or chemical structures. Abstracts describing the results of experimental studies must answer two questions: “What was done?” and “What was found?”
Abstracts must contain the following:
· a statement of the rationale and scope of the study presented
· a brief description of the experimental procedures
· the data that resulted from the study
· principal conclusion(s) based on interpretation of the results
Submission Dates:
POSTER DEADLINE: September 30, 2008
We will notify you regarding acceptance on or around October 13, 2008.
Note: For students, academics, and government scientists whose abstract is accepted, the meeting registration fee may be waived if you so request.
(1) adapted from Society of Toxicology guidelines